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IUCN ‘Informal’ Regional Members meeting in Prague announced
An IUCN ‘Informal’ Regional Members Meeting will take place in Prague on the 24th and 25th September 2018, hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic. There are a limited number of places remaining for this meeting but IUCN Members and their National Committees from the West Europe, East Europe, North and…
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IUCN70 celebrated with Nature and Human Wellbeing event in London
Happy Birthday IUCN! The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s 70th anniversary was celebrated in style by the IUCN National Committee UK and guests in London on the 2nd May 2018. Hosted by new IUCN Member the Margaret Pyke Trust and Population Sustainability Network at the Finsbury Circus offices of supporting partner law firm Stephenson…
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Defra Minister expected at IUCN70 Nature and Human Wellbeing meeting
The organisers of IUCN70 ‘Nature and Human Wellbeing’ are pleased to announce UK Government Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey MP is expected (subject to other government engagements) at the upcoming event on 2nd May in the City of London. With only a week to go, there are only a few days left to register for this event as bookings close…
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‘Nature and Human Wellbeing’ – new speakers announced at IUCN NCUK event
The IUCN National Committee UK is pleased to announce three additional speakers to the programme of ‘Nature and Human Wellbeing – Scoring Common Goals‘ on the 2nd May in London: Emily Auckland, Network Director and Co-Chair, UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development Judy Ling Wong, Trustee, London National Park City and President of the Black Environment Network…
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Nature comes first in Wales
We are pleased to report that the National Committee UK’s intervention with UK members of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) , along with others with similar views, seems to have led to the withdrawal of the more damaging aspects of a set of proposals advanced by the Welsh Government in their ‘Sustainable Management…
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IUCN NCUK Nature & Human Wellbeing – Scoring Common Goals, 2nd May, London
International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN National Committee UK event: ‘Nature and Human Wellbeing – Scoring Common Goals’ …
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Cheetah conservation and community health – paper published
The UK’s most recent IUCN member, the Margaret Pyke Trust, has published what is likely the first ever paper making the connections between human reproductive health and rights and the conservation of a specific species – the cheetah. In “The importance of human reproductive health and rights for cheetah conservation” the Margaret Pyke Trust, and…
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IUCN NCUK River Restoration and Biodiversity project expert workshop
Bring twenty of the most knowledgeable experts on river restoration in Britain and Ireland together and you can expect some well-informed outputs. Successfully delivered here was the second two-day expert workshop for the IUCN National Committee UK’s ‘River Restoration and Biodiversity’ project, this time hosted by Natural Resources Wales at their offices in Bangor in…
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National Park City Foundation launched!
I was very pleased to be invited to the launch of the National Park City Foundation yesterday in London. The energy in the room was palpable, no doubt in some small part due to the passion shared by the front man in this initiative, Daniel Raven-Ellison whom I first met at the IUCN World Parks…